06 Learning Path · 6 lessons

Codex for Designers

Set up Codex, teach it your project rules, and turn repeatable design QA into reusable skills.

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What you'll learn

  • ✓ Understand where Codex fits in the AI tool landscape
  • ✓ Set up Codex with a safe first project and project instructions
  • ✓ Create reusable skills for design QA and documentation work
  • ✓ Run a multi-lens design review with narrow subagents
  • ✓ Decide when Codex should stay read-only and when it can edit

About this path

Codex becomes useful when it understands your real project instead of a blank prompt. This path takes you from the AI basics into OpenAI Codex setup, project instructions, reusable skills, and parallel design review. By the end, you can ask Codex to inspect a repo, run a focused review, make a small safe change, and package the habit so you can repeat it.

In this path

6 lessons
  1. 01

    AI for Designers 101

    What AI tools are, how they differ, which ones matter for designers, and a practical first-week plan for getting started without the hype.
  2. 02

    Set Up Codex for Designers

    OpenAI Codex is a coding agent you can use from the app, terminal, IDE, cloud, and mobile. This designer-friendly setup guide shows what to install, what to connect, and the first safe tasks to run.
  3. 03

    Codex Skills vs Plugins: What Designers Actually Need

    Skills teach Codex how to run your workflow. Plugins connect Codex to tools and package reusable setups. Here is the practical designer version, with examples for design QA, docs, inbox triage, and design-system audits.
  4. 04

    Codex Subagents for Design Review

    Use Codex subagents to run accessibility, first-time user, copy, edge-state, and design-system reviews in parallel, then merge the findings into one prioritized report.
  5. 05

    Browser Automation for Design QA

    Delegate the mechanical parts of design QA to an AI agent that drives a real browser. Token usage, contrast, dark mode, responsive, and focus state checks that run on every PR without you clicking through every page.
  6. 06

    Trust Levels: How Agents Earn Autonomy (Part 2)

    Part 2 of the Agentic Design Systems series. The five trust levels (Observer, Advisor, Junior, Senior, Autonomous), what each one is allowed to do, and the exact criteria to promote an agent from one level to the next.
More lessons coming soon. This path is updated weekly with new lessons.

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Begin with lesson 01: AI for Designers 101

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